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Which city did President Jefferson hope to acquire before making the Louisiana Purchase?

purchase

[pur-chuhs] / ˈpɜr tΚƒΙ™s /
NOUN
possession obtained with money
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In the complaint, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Isayan alleged that Knott’s Berry Farm’s operator was engaging in “drip pricing,” or not disclosing fees consumers must pay until late in the purchase process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Georgia from Staffordshire in England said she was due to complete her first house purchase today after waiting eight months to get to this point - but the outage has delayed that.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

The average purchase roughly matched the market over three months and a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“At that point, after having invested significant time, I decided to proceed with the purchase and pay the processing fee in addition to the ticket prices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

“I wish I could purchase it. It’s exactly the type of art I’d love to collect.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Giving larger purchases more weight—a $100,000 investment counted more than a $10,000 investment—produced an estimated one-year advantage of 3.8 percentage points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Walmart, however, said it would allow consumers to authorize AI agents and distinguish between the purchases they and the agents initiated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Across 43 stock purchases evaluated both ways, the average gain exceeded the market’s by about 25 points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“They have money. The kids are out of the house,” Setian said, and they often make all-cash home purchases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

To finance their arms purchases, the Allies had borrowed more than two billion dollars from American banks, a debt that would never be repaid if Germany won the war.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

In 1990, the actor Marla Gibbs — known for her role as George Jefferson’s maid, Florence Johnston, on “The Jeffersons” — purchased the property and renamed it the Vision Theatre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Another procurement notice dated September 4, also seen by AFP but no longer accessible as of Thursday, shows that NPU's cybersecurity school purchased two Nvidia H200s for 796,000 yuan.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

Although the sixpence had an individual price tag of £8, the entire album was subsequently purchased as a single lot rather than the coin being bought separately.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

Model Bella Hadid has purchased a house in Crested Butte, Colo., for $5.5 million, according to listing agent Channing Boucher of LIV Sotheby’s International Realty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

I had purchased a small house there with a few acres of thick grass, and I was surprised to find it vacant.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Payments giant Stripe has embraced agentic purchasing and sought to stake out a central position in the AI future, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“Our combined purchasing levels will give us economies of scale by consolidating purchasing decisions into one centralized group,” the executives said in their letter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

“The reason for tasting tea this way in the first place is like purchasing a car,” Hammond told me.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

He urged prospective buyers to do research before purchasing a property to ensure they are aware of any risks.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Their increased purchasing power afforded them summer vacations to the beach or the mountains.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson


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